History doesn"t repeat itself. Nevertheless, comparisons between the present and the past may be helpful"so long, at least, as one recognizes that circumstances are ...
Tony Blair sought to return to frontline politics last week with a speech to the Open Britain movement, in which he called on those of us who voted to remain in the European Union ...
The polls this morning (June 14) indicate that Brexit will win, and the United Kingdom will be on course to leave the E.U. It's depressing. The shrill intolerance and xenophobia ...
Monday saw arguably the most asinine debate by British parliamentarians that has ever been held in Westminster Hall. The debate was triggered by an online petition having obtained ...
I was standing in Stamford, Lincolnshire on Saturday, admiring as always the architecture so splendidly Georgian it is used for filming Jane Austen adaptations. But that day the ...
Guardian journalist Zoe Williams is worried. "Is the left in Britain still alive and well?" she asks. Apparently, "no one quite knows where it has gone, or what it ...
As May 7th bulks ever bigger on the political horizon, the UKIP omnibus has developed serious rattles. As the campaign pounds punishingly on, the insurgents" inexperience is ...
When Mohammed Emwazi went out from west London to Syria literally to carve out a new career as "Jihadi John", masked avenger of non-wrongs, England lost an "extremely ...
One of the reasons I read the liberal newspapers when I am in Britain"apart from the fact that they are the best"is that they irritate me so by their smug ...
The latest British parliamentary spat was a further ripple from the scandal about MPs" expenses that first splashed into our headlines in 2009. In December 2012, it was ...
Last week saw the passing of two prominent figures on the extreme left wing of British politics: Tony Benn and Bob Crow. Politicians of all persuasions have made the inevitable ...
In just under 200 days, Scottish voters will face a referendum on whether or not to leave the United Kingdom. The milestone was marked by ongoing arguments about whether an ...
Britannia, we proudly and rather wistfully proclaim, rules the waves. Over the last couple of weeks, however, it has seemed that the waves are ruling Britannia. Reading the UK ...
Has anybody apologized to Enoch Powell yet? The British establishment declared the Conservative MP a nonperson back in 1968 after he warned that unchecked Third World immigration ...
Just in time for Christmas, the latest British census shows that since 2001, when 72% of the UK's denizens claimed to be Christians, the quotient has dropped thirteen percentage ...
On New Year's Day 1964, a louche, longhaired Leeds lad presented the first edition of the BBC's Top of the Pops from inside a converted Manchester church. Featured acts included ...